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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562523
Pages 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Laurence Lars Svekis Laurence Lars Svekis
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Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
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Codestars By Rob Percival Codestars By Rob Percival
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Preface 1. Getting Started with JavaScript 2. JavaScript Essentials 3. JavaScript Multiple Values 4. Logic Statements 5. Loops 6. Functions 7. Classes 8. Built-In JavaScript Methods 9. The Document Object Model 10. Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM 11. Interactive Content and Event Listeners 12. Intermediate JavaScript 13. Concurrency 14. HTML5, Canvas, and JavaScript 15. Next Steps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

Event listeners on elements

Events are things that happen on a web page, like clicking on something, moving the mouse over an element, changing an element, and there are many more. We have seen how to add an onclick event handler already. In the same way, you can add an onchange handler, or an onmouseover handler. There is one special condition, though; one element can only have one event handler as an HTML attribute. So, if it has an onclick handler, it cannot have an onmouseover handler as well. At this point, we have only seen how to add event listeners using HTML attributes like this:

<button onclick="addRandomNumber()">Add a number</button>

There is a way to register event handlers using JavaScript as well. We call these event listeners. Using event listeners, we can add multiple events to one element. This way, JavaScript is constantly checking, or listening, for certain events to the elements on the page. Adding event listeners is a two-step process...

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